Denmark donate over 484,000 COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses to Pakistan

Islamabad: Denmark this week donated over 484,000 COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses to Pakistan.

The vaccines donated by the Denmark Embassy in Pakistan were handed over to Pakistan at a ceremony here.

“The Ceremony was attended by Charge d’ Affairs, Danish Embassy, Simon Kjeldsen, Dy National Prog Manager @EPIPakistan, Dr. Soofia Yunus & UNICEF’s OIC Dy Rep Anteneh G Minas,” said a tweet by the UNCEF.

“Over 73 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to Pakistan through the @UNICEF-supported #COVAX facility to date. Millions more are expected to arrive in the coming months,” the tweet further said.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday confirmed 75 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus in Pakistan.

According to the National Institutes of Health, 17 cases were reported in Islamabad, 33 in Karachi and 13 in Lahore and 12 cases of omicron were detected in people coming from abroad. Authorities are conducting contact tracing to prevent the spread of omicron.

On December 2, Pakistan braced itself to counter the impending threat by taking a string of stringent and proactive measures.

Pakistani experts and officials believed that the emergence of Omicron further underlined the importance of nationwide vigorous vaccination drive and adherence to basic preventative measures of wearing masks and maintaining social distance to fight against Omicron that the World Health Organization named a “variant of concern.”